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A. C. Bishop
Alexander C. Bishop was an American politician who served as the Attorney General of Utah The Attorney General of Utah is an elected constitutional officer in the executive branch of the state government of Utah. The attorney general is the chief legal officer and legal adviser in the state. The office is elected, with a term of four ye ... from 1896 to 1901. References Utah attorneys general Utah Republicans {{Utah-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Utah Attorney General
The Attorney General of Utah is an elected constitutional officer in the executive branch of the state government of Utah. The attorney general is the chief legal officer and legal adviser in the state. The office is elected, with a term of four years. List of attorneys general * A. C. Bishop 1896–1901 * M. A. Breeden 1901–1909 * A. R. Barnes 1909–1917 * Dan B. Shields 1917-1921 * Harvey H. Cluff 1921–1929 * George P. Parker 1929–1933 * Joseph Chez 1933–1941 * Grover A. Giles 1941–1949 * Clinton D. Vernon 1949–1953 * E. R. Callister 1953–1959 * Walter L. Budge 1959–1961 * A. Pratt Kessler 1961–1965 * Phil L. Hansen 1965–1969 * Vernon B. Romney 1969–1977 * Robert B. Hansen 1977–1981 * David L. Wilkinson 1981–1989 * Paul Van Dam 1989–1993 * Jan Graham 1993–2001 * Mark Shurtleff Mark Leonard Shurtleff (born August 9, 1957) is an American attorney, former three-term Utah Attorney General, and founder of the Shurtleff ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heber Manning Wells
Heber Manning Wells (August 11, 1859March 12, 1938) was an American politician and banker who served as the first Governor of the State of Utah. Utah gained statehood on January 4, 1896; Wells served as governor from January 6, 1896, until January 2, 1905. Biography Wells was born in Salt Lake City on August 11, 1859, a son of Daniel H. Wells and Martha Givens (Harris) Wells. He was a descendant of two Connecticut governors, Thomas Welles and John Webster. His father was a prominent figure in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who served as mayor of Salt Lake City. Wells' siblings included Briant H. Wells, a major general in the United States Army. Heber Wells attended the schools of Salt Lake City, graduated from the University of Utah in 1875 and began a career in banking and local government. Career Wells was manager of the Utah Savings & Trust Company and a director of the State Bank of Utah. He was also active in Salt Lake City's civic life, including me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Republican Party (United States)
The Republican Party, also referred to as the GOP ("Grand Old Party"), is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States. The GOP was founded in 1854 by anti-slavery activists who opposed the Kansas–Nebraska Act, which allowed for the potential expansion of chattel slavery into the western territories. Since Ronald Reagan's presidency in the 1980s, conservatism has been the dominant ideology of the GOP. It has been the main political rival of the Democratic Party since the mid-1850s. The Republican Party's intellectual predecessor is considered to be Northern members of the Whig Party, with Republican presidents Abraham Lincoln, Rutherford B. Hayes, Chester A. Arthur, and Benjamin Harrison all being Whigs before switching to the party, from which they were elected. The collapse of the Whigs, which had previously been one of the two major parties in the country, strengthened the party's electoral success. Upon its founding, it supported c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Utah Attorneys General
Utah ( , ) is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. Utah is a landlocked U.S. state bordered to its east by Colorado, to its northeast by Wyoming, to its north by Idaho, to its south by Arizona, and to its west by Nevada. Utah also touches a corner of New Mexico in the southeast. Of the fifty U.S. states, Utah is the 13th-largest by area; with a population over three million, it is the 30th-most-populous and 11th-least-densely populated. Urban development is mostly concentrated in two areas: the Wasatch Front in the north-central part of the state, which is home to roughly two-thirds of the population and includes the capital city, Salt Lake City; and Washington County in the southwest, with more than 180,000 residents. Most of the western half of Utah lies in the Great Basin. Utah has been inhabited for thousands of years by various indigenous groups such as the ancient Puebloans, Navajo and Ute. The Spanish were the first Europeans ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
